Popular culture often shows alcohol as a big part of the college experience in the United States. Television programs and movies about American college life have images of wild parties with young people either drinking alcohol or holding a drink. Now, a new study of alcohol use suggests that some college students may be missing meals so they can have more drinks or get drunk faster. Researchers are calling this kind of behavior, "drunkorexia." The study involved 1,184 college students between the ages of 18 and 26 years. Most of the students attended the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, while the others went to school in other parts of the country. Researchers asked the students about their alcohol use. They found that 80 percent of those studied had demonstrated some kind of drunkorexia in the past three months. They had performed heavy physical exercise, eaten low calorie meals or even missed meals for up to a full day before drinking alcohol.
Title: US College Students Missing Meals to Drink More Alcohol
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1303/college_drinking.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='US College Students Missing Meals to Drink More Alcohol' data-article-id='1813'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9833'>Popular culture often shows alcohol as a big part of the college experience in the United States.</span> <span data-start-time='9833' data-end-time='23250'>Television programs and movies about American college life have images of wild parties with young people either drinking alcohol or holding a drink.</span> <span data-start-time='23250' data-end-time='36438'>Now, a new study of alcohol use suggests that some college students may be missing meals so they can have more drinks or get drunk faster.</span> <span data-start-time='36438' data-end-time='42417'>Researchers are calling this kind of behavior, "drunkorexia."</span> <span data-start-time='42417' data-end-time='52708'>The study involved 1,184 college students between the ages of 18 and 26 years.</span> <span data-start-time='52708' data-end-time='63771'>Most of the students attended the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, while the others went to school in other parts of the country.</span> <span data-start-time='63771' data-end-time='69125'>Researchers asked the students about their alcohol use.</span> <span data-start-time='69125' data-end-time='79063'>They found that 80 percent of those studied had demonstrated some kind of drunkorexia in the past three months.</span> <span data-start-time='79063' data-end-time='90729'>They had performed heavy physical exercise, eaten low calorie meals or even missed meals for up to a full day before drinking alcohol.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1303/college_drinking.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=7015 data-hint-location='23250' style='display:none;'><div class='question' 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